धर्माङ्गद

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Purana Encyclopedia

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

DHARMĀṄGADA : A Brahmin who became a deep meditator on Viṣṇu, because of his habits in his previous life. Dharmāṅgada was the son of Rukmāṅgada by his wife Sandhyāvalī. Rukmāṅgada was the son of Ṛtadhvaja who lived in the city of Vidiśā. He was a man of good personality, who lived with his father and being a generous man he did not hesitate to give his head to Mohinī for the pleasure of his father. God Viṣṇu was pleased with him because of his love of his father and of his loyalty to Vaiṣṇavite deity and took him bodily to heaven (Vaikuṇṭha). Dharmāṅgada lived there for many thousands of years enjoying heaven- ly pleasures. Then he went astray from divine life and had to take life again as Suvrata the son of a Brahmin named Somaśarmā.

The wise Suvrata discarded the passions of Kāma (desire), Krodha (anger) etc. and controlled his senses and engag- ed himself in penance in Vaiḍūryamahādri. For hun- dred years he sat in meditation and Mahāviṣṇu was pleased with him and took him and his father to Vaikuṇṭha. At the instruction of Mahāviṣṇu, Suvrata took life again in the house of Kaśyapa. When he died he went to Vaikuṇṭha. In every successive birth he had the remembrance of his previous birth. (Padma Purāṇa, Chapter 21).


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*4th word in left half of page 226 (+offset) in original book.